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Suggestibility, Intelligence, Memory Recall and Personality: An Experimental Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Gisli H. Gudjonsson*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF; South East Thames Interim Security Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital
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Summary

A new suggestibility test, potentially useful in the context of police interrogation, was administered to 45 subjects who also completed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Suggestibility was significantly related to low intelligence, poor memory recall, neuroticism and social desirability.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 142 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 35 - 37
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Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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